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>>kotaKa+(OP)
> Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store

This is absolutely unacceptable. That's like you having to submit your personal details to Microsoft in order to just run a program on Windows. Absolutely nuts and it will not go as they think it will.

>>gethly+Ux
Their comparison to airport security is apt. The US considers airports “constitution free zones”, and apparently they think the same of phones now too.

Cutting through the excuses, this is just another step in converting the US from a democracy to a fascist dictatorship.

Want to write software?

Papers please.

>>hedora+zb1
Yeah, it's like we've given up. Between third-party doctrine, border enforcement being excluded from 4th amendment protections, and 100-mile zones around international airports being considered "the border", it's like there's no place left where the constitution applies. How did we forget why we made these rules in the first place? It's not like the risks are smaller today than they were 250 years ago...

>>rpdill+cc1
I'm not sure it's so much that we forgot why we made them, it's that we forgot we need to maintain and enforce them and they won't somehow automatically prevent oppression just by being written down on a piece of paper in the national archives.